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Product Managers, Make your CEO provide a clear vision

Bain Public

There are so many articles about the challenges and stresses of being a Product Manager. But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. He seems busy.

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How to Answer Product Design Interview Questions

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Demonstrate Product Vision The most important aspect of your answer, by far, is the product vision portion. For this part, you should choose one of the design approaches from before and elaborate on how this product design may evolve in the future. Currently, a Product Design Interview course is being developed.

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The Top 6 Roles to Describe a Product Manager

Bain Public

The best product managers think strategically and make difficult trade-offs quickly. They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. They prioritize conflicts and manage revenue targets, resource constraints, and market demands. Does it grow the business?

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The Work of a Strategist

The Product Coalition

Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Get aligned on the vision.

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To manage a Product Roadmap, you must be a Diplomat, Strategist and Defender

Bain Public

First and foremost, this is our opportunity to remind everyone of the guiding vision. A vision statement allows you to create a mechanism for developing, communicating and tracking what the company is trying to achieve. That’s why successful product managers learn to do so in a way that is both strategic and constructive.

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Tomorrow’s Product Managers Will Need Solid Data, Model and Problem Understanding

Bain Public

As we have become accustomed to having customer research and User Experience (UX) lead product vision, a new problem is stopping eager Product Managers from putting the process they were using, and applying them on AI problems. By knowing your training dataset cold you set the vision and direction of the product.